McLintock said the results of the initial autopsy should be available Tuesday.

If they prove inconclusive, additional tests may be required at the provincial lab to establish the cause of death for Monteith, whose body was discovered Saturday in a Vancouver hotel room. He was 31.

McLintock added that Monteith’s family will be the first to receive news of the initial autopsy results.

“We don’t want them reading stuff in the newspaper or on websites first,” she insisted.